AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself
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THE INDEPENDENT — The Internet Archive is now in peril. Online news outlets and sites like Reddit are increasingly blocking the crawlers used to gather snapshots – and AI is to blame.
Organisations say the Internet Archive is just collateral damage in a battle between publishers and tech companies, which use similar crawling bots to scrape their copyrighted content to train their artificial intelligence models.
Analysis by AI-detection startup Originality AI shows that 23 major news sites have already blocked crawlers used by the Wayback project, with the trend accelerating in recent months.
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